Carambola wiki page
Saulius tipped us to the Carambola, a Wi-Fi module that supports UART, SPI, I2C, and Ethernet interfaces. On their wiki page you will find how to setup and use this device, as well as a few demo projects.
Via the contact form.
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Some essential information you omitted form the article: The board costs €22 at 8devices.com. It runs openwrt, the open wifi router linux distribution.
Looks like a very interesting little device.
I agree with markus, this is a lot more than a wifi module. It’s a more of a full computer, without a box or power supply.
Yeah, a WRT on a module!
You can see several demo projects here http://www.8devices.com/wiki_carambola/doku.php/carambola_demo_projects. These show how easy it is to build your application.
Nice. A complete little embedded linux device.
When will it be available for shipping ?
You can buy it right now: http://www.8devices.com/product/3/wi-fi-4-things/buy
Last question :)
How long will shipping take inside the EU ?
They don’t say, but inside the EU shipping will be a week or less, usually.
It took, about 14 days until delivery.
And it´s really a complete Linux-Machine
at a small from factor.
It´s really easy to flash. Connect via RS232 to the
Dev-Board, upload an image via tftp and youre done.
But never ever try to upload a new bootloader.
After I did, it was sort of bricked. Ok, my fault.
Does any of you know, how to flash a working uBoot
to this device. I got a Buspirate and some spare time
to resurect it. Jtag, SPI ? Any ideas ?
Nilz, ship it back to 8devices, we will fix it. Subscribe to wiki RSS and keep looking at forum. I hope we will offer simple JTAG solution how to unbrick it soon.
I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks now. The Carambola is truly tiny and the OpenWrt package management system is very cool. It just needs a lot more people contributing and showing their projects, so go out and buy one now!
I’ve written a bit about Carambola in comparison with the Arduino on my website: http://nut-bolt.nl/2012/carambola/
Hi, I am considering to buy one of these guys. Is it possible to plug in a USB keyboard and use it as an input?
Thanks!
Yes, it has full USB Host support. You can attach any USB Hardware you can get drivers for (like Mouse, Keyboard, Webcams, USB HDD, 3G Stick, bluetooth, etc.)